Configure API Portal for single sign-on

API Portal supports single sign-on (SSO). This enables users to use the same login details for API Portal and other Axway platform products, such as API Manager or Decision Insight, and eliminates the need to log in multiple times to different web-based UIs.

API Portal uses API Manager as the service provider in SSO, but they can be configured separately. This means that you can have SSO in just API Portal, in API Manager, or in both. API Portal SSO is controlled in the service-provider-apiportal.xml file, while API Manager SSO uses the service-provider.xml.

The following topics describe how SSO works in API Portal and how to configure it: